Wartime collaboration and its aftermath:
French cartoonists collaborated with the Nazis to portray Britons as duplicitous, corpse-groping torturers and Jews as child-killers in an influential children's magazine, a new book by a Glasgow University academic reveals.
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Le Téméraire was published for more than 18 months during the Nazi occupation of France. It benefited from the Vichy regime's strict censorship, which helped it to gain a "virtual monopoly" among children's magazines, and was read by up to half a million children every fortnight until its abrupt closure as the Nazis retreated in August 1944.
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The magazine's most common target... was Europe's Jewish population...
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Some of the magazine's contributors... disappeared after the war.But others have been lauded as heroes of the cartoon genre. Poïvet, Jean Ache, Hidalgo and Guy Bertet transferred the successful theme-based format of Le Téméraire to Pilote, the magazine that introduced Asterix in 1959.
Their reputations survived a 1976 study by Pascal Ory, a French historian, and their wartime activities have remained conspicuously absent from French encyclopaedias of comic books.